{"product_id":"roman-stories-paperback-1","title":"Roman Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eTodd Portnowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR - The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller \u003ci\u003eUnaccustomed Earth\u003c\/i\u003e - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life.\" --\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"The Boundary,\" one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. In \"P's Parties,\" a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering--until the husband crosses a line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd in \"The Steps,\" on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri's adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College (Columbia University). She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut story collection. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lowland, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in fiction. Since 2015, Lahiri has been writing fiction, essays, and poetry in Italian: \u003ci\u003eIn Altre Parole\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eIn Other Words\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eIl Vestito dei libri\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Clothing of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eDove mi trovo \u003c\/i\u003e(self-translated as \u003ci\u003eWhereabouts\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eIl quaderno di Nerina\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRacconti romani\u003c\/i\u003e. She has translated three novels by Domenico Starnone and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Classics Book of Italian Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in Italy as \u003ci\u003eRacconti Italiani\u003c\/i\u003e. Lahiri received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2014, and in 2019 she was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. Her most recent book in English is a collection of essays entitled \u003ci\u003eTranslating Myself and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, published in Spring 2022 by Princeton University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.97 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256506007801,"sku":"9780593469903","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/KM0FxWylX-9780593469903.webp?v=1768734540","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/roman-stories-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}